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Before 1846
The Mile End Tavern was an inn and tavern in operation from the beginning of the 19th century until the turn of the 20th century. Located on the northwest corner of the crossroads of the Saint-Laurent Road with the Tannery and Sainte-Catherine Roads – now Mont-Royal Avenue – it was the […]
The Mile End Tavern
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(Français) L’identité historique du Plateau
Chapter 4 – The Beaubien Family First part: Pierre Beaubien, Doctor and Landlord The map “Villages of Côte St. Louis, St. Louis du Mile End, Outremont and Côte des Neiges”, published in the Hopkins Atlas in1879shows clearly that just to the east of St. Lawrence Road, the Bagg family had […]
4.1: The Beaubien Family
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(Français) Chapitre 3, deuxième partie – Stanley Clark Bagg
2 Chapitre 3 – Mile End and its major landowners, part 1. The Bagg family and John Clark The Baggs and the Beaubiens. For several generations, these well-known Montreal families, one English-Canadian, the other French-Canadian, were major property holders and neighbours. They played an essential role in the transformation of a […]
3.1: John Clark, butcher, and Stanley Bagg, merchant
4 The first part of the area in which farms were joined by a hamlet was at the intersection of what are now Mont-Royal and Henri-Julien avenues. It was known as the Tannéries des Bélair, named for the family that first lived there. Jean-Louis Plessis dit Bélair was born in 1678 […]
Chapter 2: From the Bélair Tannery to Côte-Saint-Louis Village
Chapter 1: Rural Mile End A magnificent forest? The early days of Mile End are still poorly known. In 1891, the Lovell’s directory published a promotional guide using data from the then recently completed census. In addition to articles on Montreal, the book presented brief portrayals of the outlying villages. […]
1: Rural Mile End
How did this area get the name Mile End? A simple question, not so simple to answer! The question has been asked for decades, not only by local residents but also by various authors. Here are three articles that gradually converge towards an explanation. — The first was written in […]
The origins of Mile End
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Des familles fondatrices du Mile End
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L’origine du nom Mile End
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